傣族是一个以稻作为特征的民族,这一特征是傣族先民适应其自然环境的生计选择,也是其原始信仰的基础。南传佛教在傣族地区的传播中,经历了与傣族原始稻作信仰的冲突与调适,在这一过程中,南传佛教通过将其教理教仪与稻作生产实践相结合,在促进傣族稻作生产中得到了传播与发展。由此,不仅南传佛教具有了稻作意象,傣族稻作生产也具有了佛教意象,佛教教义教理成为了傣族传统稻作生产遵循的规范。 Dai is a nationality characterized by rice as a feature of the livelihood choices of Dai ancestors to adapt to their natural environment and is also the basis of their original beliefs. During the spread of the Buddhism in the Dai nationality, the southern Buddhism experienced the conflict and adjustment with the primitive rice culture in the Dai nationality. In this process, the southern Buddhism, through combining the teaching pedagogy with the practice of rice production, For production has been spread and development. As a result, not only did the South Buddhism have the image of rice cultivation, but the production of the paddy rice in the Dai also had the image of Buddhism, and the doctrinal teaching of the Buddhism became the norm for the traditional production of the Dai rice.